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BLOW
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Tamil
Flash, Blowing, Opening
Girl/Female
Tamil
Blowing Hard, Demon
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English and German
English and German : metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower, from Old English glæs ‘glass’ (akin to Glad, referring originally to the bright shine of the material), Middle High German glas.Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’ or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.German : altered form of the personal name Klass, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Glass ‘glass’, or a metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.
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English
English : habitational name from Glascote near Tamworth in Staffordshire, named from Old English glæs ‘glass’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘shelter’; it was probably once a site inhabited by a glass blower.Welsh : habitational name from Glascoed in Monmouthshire (Gwent), named from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’ + coed ‘wood’. This name is also found in Ireland and may also have been brought to the U.S. from there.
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English
English : possibly of Flemish origin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Bufo.English : alternatively, perhaps, from a diminutive of Old French bufe, buffe ‘blow’, ‘slap in the face’, hence probably a nickname for a rough or uncouth man.
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English (chiefly Nottinghamshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : variant of Hart.German : topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’.Dutch : nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’.
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English
English : from Middle English blowe, blaa, bloo ‘pale’, hence a nickname for someone with an exceptionally pale complexion.Americanized spelling of French Bleau.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Angel who will blow the trum
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English
English : derivative of the personal name Pell.German (Pullmann) : variant of Puhlmann, itself a variant of Puhl.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a bottle blower, from German Pulle ‘bottle’ + Mann ‘man’.
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English
English : from Middle English blÅwere ‘one who blows’. The name was applied chiefly to someone who operated a bellows, either as a blacksmith’s assistant or to provide wind for a church organ. In other cases it was applied to someone who blew a horn, i.e. a huntsman or a player of the musical instrument.Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ab Llywarch ‘son of Llywarch’. Compare Flower.
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Northern English
Northern English : probably a habitational name from a minor place in Soulby, Cumbria, called Longthorn, from Old English lang ‘long’ + horn ‘projecting headland’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.English : nickname from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + horn ‘horn’, with various possible applications; it could have denoted a horn blower or possibly a cuckhold, or it may have referred to some physical characteristic; there is some suggestion that horn in some names may mean ‘head’ or otherwise ‘phallus’.Danish : habitational name from Langhorn.Dutch : nickname for someone with long ears.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Speaking, blowing.
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English
English : most probably a variant of Beaufort.Possibly an Anglicized spelling of French Buffard, which is from Old French bouffard, a term which meant ‘puffing and blowing’, hence an unflattering nickname for an irascible or self-important man.American bearers of this name are mostly descended from Richard Beauford or Beaufort, who came from England to Lancaster co., VA, in 1635.
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English, Scottish, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch : from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person’s physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Swedish : ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably from German Horn ‘horn’, adopted as a surname for reasons that are not clear. It may be purely ornamental, or it may refer to the ram’s horn (Hebrew shofar) blown in the Synagogue during various ceremonies.
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German
German : nickname for a violent, aggressive person, from Middle High German buf ‘push’, ‘shove’.German : from the Old German personal name Bodo or the compound name Bodefrit, containing the Old High German element buitan ‘to bid or order’ or boto ‘messenger’.English : of uncertain derivation; possibly a nickname, either variant of Boff 1, or alternatively from Old French buf(f)e ‘blow’, ‘slap in the face’. Compare Buffin.
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English (of Cornish origin)
English (of Cornish origin) : metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.Scottish : reduced form of McGlasson.French and Swiss French : from a diminutive of glace ‘ice’, hence a nickname for a cold person.
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English
English : variant spelling of Blow.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : patronymic from Blower 1.
Boy/Male
Native American
Where the wind blows down the gap.
Boy/Male
Indian
Angel who will blow the trum
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n.
Alt. of Blowess
n.
A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
v. t.
To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
a.
Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
v. t.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
n.
A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
n.
The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
n.
A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.
p. p. & a.
Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.
n.
The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
n.
See Blowze.
n.
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
adj.
as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
v. t.
To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
n.
A blowgun.
a.
Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.
n.
A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
n.
A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
n.
One who, or that which, blows.
n.
A blowgun; a blowtube.